- Loretan is often credited with bringing fast-and-light style to the highest mountains - New foreword by bestselling writer David Roberts On October 5, 1995, Erhard Loretan became the third person to climb all fourteen 8000-meter peaks, ...
... a cross between a retriever and a Gordon setter . He had already picked up the trick of Johnson's dog and went bolting from the shadow of one stone to that of the next ; but there were no rocks big enough to cast shadow over a man .
10 maps, 48 colour pictures. When Harish Kohli and his team of seven members reached the summit of the Karakoram Pass in the early afternoon of 17th February 1995, they had been on the move for twelve gruelling hours.
Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth
A guardian spirit in the form of a snow leopard looks over a small village in the Himalayas, and chooses a human successor, whom she trains to sing songs that will protect the villagers from soldiers who search for gold and slaves.
Three collections of the short stories, The Night Train at Deoli, Time Stops at Shamli and Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra have been published by Penguin India.
Freedom from Fear
... SHISHAPANGMA 26,000 feet | 7,930 meters. SUMMIT DAY ON SHISHAPANGMA 25,000 feet | 7,625 meters ( PRECEDING PAGES ) When things go right , you know you're lucky , and when things are perfect , all you can do is be grateful . On our ascent ...
Running the Himalayas
Explore the geography, weather, plants, plants and animals, and environment of the the Himalaya Mountains.